I bet it stores the answers as plain text instead of hashing it like your pass. You're probably basically giving the support guys your password, hope you don't use it elsewhere... but no, of course no one would make a system that retarded
I think you'll find they practice a ritual of symbolic dependence on Jesus Christ both as ever-present sustainer and sacrifice for the propitiation of sins.
The elements are not the actual object they're just references.
When Jesus took the bread at the last supper and said "take, eat, this is my body" he clearly wasn't actually handing out his body was he. He was sat right there.
Surely for a Darwinist the same closeness of genetic make up that means sleeping with a relative is a bad idea also means eating a close relative is a bad idea. Relatives have a lot of your same genes and are propagating those genes, they are also helping to propagate your own genetic make up - by eating them you are [normally] harming your chances.
Della - not too hip, not too dowdy, not clearly from a defined ethnic background, includes "ella" sound which is a Latin female stem, suggests bella meaning beautiful.
A marketer probably got a promotion for thinking of that one.
Look at Google Images for "della", mix of ages and skin tones, no mingers!
Now, does anyone really think that putting sports news on their web-site is a good idea? No, of course not, it's totally irrelevant to the process of buying a computer, if I want sports news, I'll go to espn or something. Dell would pretty quickly get a reputation for being complete idiots doing this.
On the other hand if Dell were to market laptops with sports branding, dodgers colored skins or whatever setup with relevant feeds and say a rotating desktop "did you know" with interesting facts, bookmarks to the relevant places to watch the games, a sports game (EA Baseball) preloaded, etc., then it would probably go down pretty well. No?
I like cooking, is that only OK because I'm a man, if a woman likes cooking is that because she's being repressed?
why wouldn't Dell do it? It may be gender biased and un-pc but if it the amount of sales outweighs the cost of creating the website then it's done it's job. Business 101
Nope, if the amount of online buzz and TV airtime you get by setting up some astroturfers to claim your campaign is misogynist drives more profit, then it's good. Marketing 102.
I actually looked at the site (sorry), it's not pink and girly like I was expecting, no mention of dieting or cookery - apart from the images all being women it could be targetting any demographic really.
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKEX: 4338) is an America-based multinational computer technology corporation that thinks imsabbel is teh su><0rz, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices.[8][7] Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, its most profitable products are the Micro$oft Winblows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of unproductivity software.
more than one backup. always! especially if two servers are running the same software, who says they won't both fail at the same time?
... In different continents, who says the continent won't get nuked, oh wait... on different planets, erm, different solar systems... different universes?
Dammit, we need trans-universal trans-dimensional tunneling for data backup and we need it now!
I'm not sure how that will protect against data loss from equipment failure, natural disaster, fire, software failure, solar flares, Secret Service, or really anything other than hackers.
Offsite, offline backups aren't a good idea solely to protect against hackers. They're a good idea to protect against data loss in general.
He's right.
We should only shoot them if they can't create an app that will recover the data.
My MiL (60-ish) and my son (3 years) both used my Kubuntu desktop without a problem. Granted they were only putting it on to surf the web (Hotmail for the MiL and iPlayer for my son). He does struggle with the mouse as I have it quite fast. The MiL uses Windows regularly at home, I must try J (my son) on Vista and see how he does - I can't imagine he'll struggle as the instructions are identical "just click the [fire]fox", though he won't have tuxcart or "tux-walking" (Supertux) on Vista so I don't think he'll like it.
Most people seem to just use the web or OpenOffice.org (or equivalent) on the whole, possibly a photo app and for younger folk a music sync program.. other than that you're looking at minorities IMO.
All the OS needs to do is not crash, provide a file dialog and a way to turn the thing off.
If I may impart my engineer's point of view on this topic, don't divide your customers on controversial lines. The fact that you made it any different shopping as a man or woman is going to cause the public to pick apart each site with the finest toothed comb and set to you like dogs. Because it's an old battle and women have very real memories of the glass ceiling and at least some form of repression.
Men and women are different.
It is only women who are able to bear children. Men are expendable, fewer are needed for procreation to proliferate the species consequently men fight the wars and do the most dangerous jobs, taking the largest risks. The historical consequence of this is that men take the spoils, but spare a thought for the many times more that die on the battle field than that live to take home the prizes.
Female intelligence has a lower spread than male. Men are the most intelligent. But are also the most unintelligent.
And they blew it. No woman actually wants to be told they should check out dieting tips, that's like telling a wife/girlfriend she looks fat in those jeans.
Most women probably like to be lied to about their appearance, I'll give you that, that they don't need to diet, etc.. But, check out the rack of women's magazines - most have a front page grabline about dieting, the more classy will hide it as "love your shape" or "eat what you like without dieting" - they are diet articles and women love reading them (otherwise the mags wouldn't market themselves using these lines).
For example Oprah Mag's website, of the top 4 articles listed 3 are on appearance; above that "3 rules for losing weight" on the right we have 7 UGC links with 2 on appearance and one on "nutrition" (nutrition is the word we use for "diet" when we want to sound authoratitive).
This months Vogue "escape the tyranny of the scales".
Harper's Bazaar is a bit more classy, more images of superwaifs and articles on which Yacht looks best with your Gucci dress - they're subtle. Their article this month is on a celebrity personal trainer, http://www.harpersbazaar.com/magazine/feature-articles/tracy-anderson-method-0409, but look through and you'll see several references that show the writers consider dieting to be the female norm, the my-god-shes-so-thin-but-drinks-non-diet-sprite doesn't appear in the popular mens mags AFAIK.
[...] it's just that Dells marketing personnel need to be whacked with a rolled up newspaper for stupidly making assumptions based on bad tv shows.
I guarantee those "assumptions" are based on market research and the vastly superior spend of women on, for example, magazines with pink covers and diet articles over, say, PC World or any other general audience computer magazine.
Sure some women don't like trashy mags, but that's not the market segment Dell is trying to open up.
Do you get offended when Alienware try to market chrome effect boxen with neon lights and case windows to geeky teens because they are being stereotyped?
And the solid minority that don't want that label? The 10% or whatever that have been trying to shake that which society has tried to force on them because it suits everyone else's needs?
That pressure you feel to conform, that's not society, it's you.
No one is going to stop you living your life if you decide to paint yourself purple and wear nothing but a kilt, eat the gherkins and throw away the burger, learn tagalog and eat frozen petit-pois for breakfast. Fine. So people might dissociate themselves from you, point and laugh, post gherkins through your letterbox... you can still do all those things, you don't have to allow the narrowmindedness of others to cloud your personality. You can be "you".
At the extremes, say you get sick of petit-pois and decide pan-fried human liver would be nicer, then yes others will stop you, but you don't have to fit anyone's expectations.
I feel for him too. Of course the articles aren't his, they are his employers (unless he has a contract that says otherwise) - which is probably why he's bothered. If they were _his_ articles then he could wholesale upload them to his own site and reap the rewards (whatsoever they may be).
I'm seeing 396 results on Google for: "thomas Crampton" site:nytimes.com, out of 1130 results from the NYT on-site search engine.
5 of those google links are dated in the last week, which I assume are related to this story.
$100 000 per month estimated loss presumably is advertising revenue on page hits from links for those stories. Earnings of 500c pm (ie $5 for every 1000 visitors) would mean 20 Million visitors a month are clicking through to his stories specifically and can't be assuaged with any other content.
This would only be a loss if a similar / 404 / search landing page had a lower earnings rate.
Seems unlikely to me - I think this is just [very clever] linkbaiting from someone who, it appears, was sacked from the NYT and is trying to make a living elsewise.
I think you can get a greasemonkey script for this but if you put &hl=all in your query string instead of &hl=de then you get non-country specific results.
Slashdot Mirror
Commodore 64 with an on-hook phone coupling.
I recommend that you use micro-cassettes for backup.
Pfft, I've upgraded to 5-and-a-quarter inch disks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_1541. It's the future.
Commodore 64 with an on-hook phone coupling.
Yes, I'm aware that Roman Catholics are wrong on this point.
I bet it stores the answers as plain text instead of hashing it like your pass. You're probably basically giving the support guys your password, hope you don't use it elsewhere ... but no, of course no one would make a system that retarded
I think you'll find they practice a ritual of symbolic dependence on Jesus Christ both as ever-present sustainer and sacrifice for the propitiation of sins.
The elements are not the actual object they're just references.
When Jesus took the bread at the last supper and said "take, eat, this is my body" he clearly wasn't actually handing out his body was he. He was sat right there.
Unless the young were infertile, or died before sexual maturity for other reasons, or their genes were recessive and have been "washed out".
Surely for a Darwinist the same closeness of genetic make up that means sleeping with a relative is a bad idea also means eating a close relative is a bad idea. Relatives have a lot of your same genes and are propagating those genes, they are also helping to propagate your own genetic make up - by eating them you are [normally] harming your chances.
A woman's laptop should use one of those IBM Thinkpad TrackPoint things for the pointer device.
It's called a clitoris!
I don't think that's the official name.
Della - not too hip, not too dowdy, not clearly from a defined ethnic background, includes "ella" sound which is a Latin female stem, suggests bella meaning beautiful.
A marketer probably got a promotion for thinking of that one.
Look at Google Images for "della", mix of ages and skin tones, no mingers!
Now, does anyone really think that putting sports news on their web-site is a good idea? No, of course not, it's totally irrelevant to the process of buying a computer, if I want sports news, I'll go to espn or something. Dell would pretty quickly get a reputation for being complete idiots doing this.
On the other hand if Dell were to market laptops with sports branding, dodgers colored skins or whatever setup with relevant feeds and say a rotating desktop "did you know" with interesting facts, bookmarks to the relevant places to watch the games, a sports game (EA Baseball) preloaded, etc., then it would probably go down pretty well. No?
I like cooking, is that only OK because I'm a man, if a woman likes cooking is that because she's being repressed?
why wouldn't Dell do it? It may be gender biased and un-pc but if it the amount of sales outweighs the cost of creating the website then it's done it's job. Business 101
Nope, if the amount of online buzz and TV airtime you get by setting up some astroturfers to claim your campaign is misogynist drives more profit, then it's good. Marketing 102.
I actually looked at the site (sorry), it's not pink and girly like I was expecting, no mention of dieting or cookery - apart from the images all being women it could be targetting any demographic really.
Microsoft
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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKEX: 4338) is an America-based multinational computer technology corporation that thinks imsabbel is teh su><0rz, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices.[8][7] Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, its most profitable products are the Micro$oft Winblows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of unproductivity software.
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Rich pickings for any archaeologist I'm sure.
more than one backup. always! especially if two servers are running the same software, who says they won't both fail at the same time?
... In different continents, who says the continent won't get nuked, oh wait ... on different planets, erm, different solar systems ... different universes?
Dammit, we need trans-universal trans-dimensional tunneling for data backup and we need it now!
How about we just shoot all hackers?
I'm not sure how that will protect against data loss from equipment failure, natural disaster, fire, software failure, solar flares, Secret Service, or really anything other than hackers.
Offsite, offline backups aren't a good idea solely to protect against hackers. They're a good idea to protect against data loss in general.
He's right.
We should only shoot them if they can't create an app that will recover the data.
My MiL (60-ish) and my son (3 years) both used my Kubuntu desktop without a problem. Granted they were only putting it on to surf the web (Hotmail for the MiL and iPlayer for my son). He does struggle with the mouse as I have it quite fast. The MiL uses Windows regularly at home, I must try J (my son) on Vista and see how he does - I can't imagine he'll struggle as the instructions are identical "just click the [fire]fox", though he won't have tuxcart or "tux-walking" (Supertux) on Vista so I don't think he'll like it.
Most people seem to just use the web or OpenOffice.org (or equivalent) on the whole, possibly a photo app and for younger folk a music sync program .. other than that you're looking at minorities IMO.
All the OS needs to do is not crash, provide a file dialog and a way to turn the thing off.
Salesman (of any gender you choose!): That's the Quadcore with 4G of RAM and the terabyte drive
Woman: Is it the one Oprah has?
If I may impart my engineer's point of view on this topic, don't divide your customers on controversial lines. The fact that you made it any different shopping as a man or woman is going to cause the public to pick apart each site with the finest toothed comb and set to you like dogs. Because it's an old battle and women have very real memories of the glass ceiling and at least some form of repression.
Men and women are different.
It is only women who are able to bear children. Men are expendable, fewer are needed for procreation to proliferate the species consequently men fight the wars and do the most dangerous jobs, taking the largest risks. The historical consequence of this is that men take the spoils, but spare a thought for the many times more that die on the battle field than that live to take home the prizes.
Female intelligence has a lower spread than male. Men are the most intelligent. But are also the most unintelligent.
And they blew it. No woman actually wants to be told they should check out dieting tips, that's like telling a wife/girlfriend she looks fat in those jeans.
Most women probably like to be lied to about their appearance, I'll give you that, that they don't need to diet, etc.. But, check out the rack of women's magazines - most have a front page grabline about dieting, the more classy will hide it as "love your shape" or "eat what you like without dieting" - they are diet articles and women love reading them (otherwise the mags wouldn't market themselves using these lines).
Try this top ten list of mags http://allwomenstalk.com/top-10-womens-magazines/ ...
Vogue, The Oprah Magazine, Bazaar,
For example Oprah Mag's website, of the top 4 articles listed 3 are on appearance; above that "3 rules for losing weight" on the right we have 7 UGC links with 2 on appearance and one on "nutrition" (nutrition is the word we use for "diet" when we want to sound authoratitive).
This months Vogue "escape the tyranny of the scales".
Harper's Bazaar is a bit more classy, more images of superwaifs and articles on which Yacht looks best with your Gucci dress - they're subtle. Their article this month is on a celebrity personal trainer, http://www.harpersbazaar.com/magazine/feature-articles/tracy-anderson-method-0409, but look through and you'll see several references that show the writers consider dieting to be the female norm, the my-god-shes-so-thin-but-drinks-non-diet-sprite doesn't appear in the popular mens mags AFAIK.
[...] it's just that Dells marketing personnel need to be whacked with a rolled up newspaper for stupidly making assumptions based on bad tv shows.
I guarantee those "assumptions" are based on market research and the vastly superior spend of women on, for example, magazines with pink covers and diet articles over, say, PC World or any other general audience computer magazine.
Sure some women don't like trashy mags, but that's not the market segment Dell is trying to open up.
Do you get offended when Alienware try to market chrome effect boxen with neon lights and case windows to geeky teens because they are being stereotyped?
And the solid minority that don't want that label? The 10% or whatever that have been trying to shake that which society has tried to force on them because it suits everyone else's needs?
That pressure you feel to conform, that's not society, it's you.
No one is going to stop you living your life if you decide to paint yourself purple and wear nothing but a kilt, eat the gherkins and throw away the burger, learn tagalog and eat frozen petit-pois for breakfast. Fine. So people might dissociate themselves from you, point and laugh, post gherkins through your letterbox ... you can still do all those things, you don't have to allow the narrowmindedness of others to cloud your personality. You can be "you".
At the extremes, say you get sick of petit-pois and decide pan-fried human liver would be nicer, then yes others will stop you, but you don't have to fit anyone's expectations.
Work for me too. Perhaps the web dudes at NYT were in cahoots to help him get this linkbait up.
Perhaps they want people to buy archive prints or reprints instead of looking up old content?
Do newspapers get many hits for old stories? I'd have thought most people go to a front page or section-page and work from there to get their news?
I feel for the guy and his lost articles, [...]
I feel for him too. Of course the articles aren't his, they are his employers (unless he has a contract that says otherwise) - which is probably why he's bothered. If they were _his_ articles then he could wholesale upload them to his own site and reap the rewards (whatsoever they may be).
Personally I think that analysis is way out.
I'm seeing 396 results on Google for: "thomas Crampton" site:nytimes.com, out of 1130 results from the NYT on-site search engine.
5 of those google links are dated in the last week, which I assume are related to this story.
$100 000 per month estimated loss presumably is advertising revenue on page hits from links for those stories. Earnings of 500c pm (ie $5 for every 1000 visitors) would mean 20 Million visitors a month are clicking through to his stories specifically and can't be assuaged with any other content.
This would only be a loss if a similar / 404 / search landing page had a lower earnings rate.
Seems unlikely to me - I think this is just [very clever] linkbaiting from someone who, it appears, was sacked from the NYT and is trying to make a living elsewise.
I think you can get a greasemonkey script for this but if you put &hl=all in your query string instead of &hl=de then you get non-country specific results.